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This is not the correct model. For a typical user, they can bring the laptop to someone knowledgeable, who will pop out the drive for them. The main question
by hyperman1 3mo ago
This is not the correct model. For a typical user, they can bring the laptop to someone knowledgeable, who will pop out the drive for them.
The main question is: What is the biggest risk: theft or data corruption.
In my experience, corruption and ransomware is more common so FDE should be off for households desktops or laptops, as these rarely leave the house. A business tends to have managed devices and data loss is a legal nightmare, so FDE should be on. The main thing is: people should be able to choose.
- cogman10 3mo agoThere is a happy medium. Encrypt the user directory/s and leave the rest of the disk unencrypted. There is still a risk that the user loses valuable data due to corruption, but there is much less of a risk of the entire system being unusable or unrecoverable because of corruption or ransomware.
- hyperman1 3mo agoYou're proposing encrypting the only thing that merits recovery?